10 Screen Printing YouTube Channels Worth Your Subscribe

If you’ve started poking around screen printing on YouTube, you’ve probably already noticed there’s a lot out there. That’s a good thing. This industry, more than most trades I’ve been around, is full of shop owners willing to show you exactly how they do it, mistakes included. I’ve been watching screen printing videos since around 2012, which means I’ve sat through hundreds of channels and probably thousands of videos. A handful of them have stood out enough, for long enough, that I keep coming back.

Here are 10 of them. Some are better if you’re just getting started. Some are more useful once you’ve got a few years in and you’re figuring out what comes after “just getting started.” I’ve split them that way below.

One piece of advice before the list: don’t go straight to a channel’s newest video. Go find their oldest ones. Watching someone figure it out from zero is worth more than watching them explain it once they’re already good at it.

For those just getting started

RhyBeats

Rhy prints out of his garage, and this is one of my favorite channels on the list. He posts live video almost every day, and while not all of it is screen printing — he also covers vinyl, heat transfer, DTF, and embroidery — the quality holds up across all of it. It’s more vlog than tutorial, so you get the full picture: the good days and the bad ones. If you want an honest look at what running a print business out of your home actually looks like, day to day, start here.

JoshIsTerrific

Josh prints out of his garage on a Riley Hopkins 250 manual press. He’s built some of his own equipment on camera, including a DIY exposure unit, so if you’re comfortable with a bit of woodworking and want to build instead of buy, his channel is worth digging into. He also runs actual tests to answer the questions beginners argue about online — like whether you really need an underbase on dark garments — instead of just repeating what everyone else says.

Ryonet

This one you’ve probably already found, since Ryonet is one of the largest distributors of screen printing supplies and equipment in the country. It’s obviously in their interest to produce educational content, but they’ve done it well, and they’ve done it for a long time. Their early videos, in particular, are worth going back to — I learned from them myself when I was starting out.

Catspit Productions

The name alone tells you this channel is different from the others, and the guy behind it is genuinely one of a kind. He’s also been making screen printing how-to videos longer than almost anyone else on this list, and his knowledge of the craft runs deep. Dig through his archive. There’s a lot in there that doesn’t show up in newer, more polished content.

BAAV Productions

Baav produces long-form videos that walk through an entire print job from start to finish — a lot of “day in the life” style content, which I find genuinely useful for understanding everything that goes into a job beyond just pulling the squeegee. He’s since moved out of his basement into a retail space and upgraded his press, though he’s still running manual. He also has his own retail apparel brand and does embroidery alongside the screen printing.

For those moving beyond screen printing at home

Golden Press Studios

The team behind Golden Press — talented and genuinely entertaining to watch — mixes screen printing content with graphic design, much of it in a “come along for the ride” vlog style. There’s real value in watching how they arrive at business decisions, because you can apply the same thinking to your own. They’ve recently moved into a new shop and picked up an automatic press, so if you want to see what that manual-to-auto transition looks like, this is a good place to watch it happen. They’re also responsive if you reach out to them on Instagram.

Lee Stuart

Lee has followed a similar path to Golden Press — out of the basement, into a new shop space, and recently onto an automatic press — so again, useful if you want to see that transition firsthand. He essentially documented his entire journey from screen print newbie to professional, so his early videos are worth watching in order. He’s since expanded past screen printing into embroidery, heat-applied graphics, DTG, and a laser. He’s got strong opinions about quality and work ethic, and an equally strong passion for death metal, which comes through in the videos whether you’re there for it or not.

Squeegee and Ink

Chessie runs this channel out of her UK-based shop, Squeegee and Ink. She often positions herself as the tester — trying things out on camera so you don’t have to find out the hard way. She also runs a podcast worth checking out, and her “Printers Corner” segments answer real viewer questions, which makes them some of the more directly useful videos on this list. She also has her own apparel brand, Blind Maggot, so if you’re thinking about starting your own line, her channel is worth following for that alone.

Taino Ink

John Taino runs Taino Ink and takes viewers behind the scenes of his small print shop, mixing vlog-style content with straight how-to videos. There’s a lot of halftone content here, along with videos on how to approach specific types of orders. John’s personality comes through clearly in his videos, and he’s the kind of shop owner I’d genuinely like to meet in person someday.

ADubb Productions

Alan Wade, the person behind this channel, came from a background in music production and is relatively new to screen printing himself, which makes this channel a bit different from the others on this list — you’re watching someone learn in closer to real time. He covers a lot of heat transfer, DTF, and embroidery content, and he also uses a newer screen-making technology that skips emulsion entirely, building a new screen and mesh for each order. It’s not widely covered elsewhere, which makes it interesting to watch play out.

Just scratching the surface

There are far more good channels out there than 10, and this list only covers the ones I’ve personally learned the most from over the years. If you’re just starting, pick two or three from the first group and watch their early videos in order. That’s closer to a curriculum than most paid courses I’ve seen.

If you want video content built specifically around the business side of running a shop rather than the craft side, that’s what my own YouTube channel is for — free, and covering the parts of this business nobody else seems to want to talk about. You can find it at https://youtube.com/@startupscreenprinting.